Excellent work stamina week!

Great work week shout out to all!  Your problem - solving skills are getting stronger and stronger with your growing independence and self-reflection skills. 

You had work time on SWAY Biography, did a RAD test, completed your TV scene script, worked on Ignition digital citizenship program, read for AR class goals, and learned tricks of the trade to help with Math activities to calculate angles in triangles. 

Remember to daily read 30 min for AR goals, do Mathletics, and work on the Ignition site to help the class qualify for NHL prizes. 

A huge shout out to Arvie, Pearayne, Trenese, Richmon, and Ken for creating our class' beautiful stations of the cross canvasses for the church. 

As discussed with the class yesterday a few students still need to full fill their portfolios requirements from December.  You need to make arrangements with Mrs. B to complete these EE self-reflections as we will be doing the Jan/Feb portfolio work fairly soon. 

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP COVERED IN A NEW UNIQUE WAY!

Since the start of the school year, Digital Citizenship has been a daily occurrence in our class as it is in everyone's life in the 21st century.  Students need to know the ins/outs of safely using a computer/program as well as the internet for personal safety/plagiarism laws.  

Our class is now enrolled in the Ignition Digital Citizenship Program sponsored by the SK Curriculum and the NHL hockey League.  Each student has been registered with their own username & password (small yellow sticky note)  Below is the login to the site.  Please bookmark this site at home on your computers.  Class time will be provided to work through the program to help further strength what has been taught in class. Earplugs are a must so all students,  as listed on the supply list,  need to have a pair daily at school to use when needed.

https://platform.everfi.net/

We started our RAD test today and will continue it this week.

Students also worked on the technical requirements for their biography SWAY and group created drama TV show scene. 

Please follow through with your goals:  daily AR reading for team goals and doing Mathletics to reinforce understanding of Math concepts.

Way to Sway with the SWAY!

It is SWAYIN' TIME!

(Sample pic of an actual Sway program card)


Congratulations to the class for working so hard learning the new Sway program with Mrs. Stewart-Mitchell!  You should be very proud of yourselves as she told Mr. Wahl that some awesome learning is going on in Mrs. B's classroom, they are  becoming strong digital learners!  Again, a big shout of thanks goes out to Mrs. Stewart-Mitchell for the great compliment.

 

It is with a heavy heart that I share the following news:  our dear Archbishop Daniel Bohan has now ended his earthly journey and is now in heaven with God.  I had the privilege of meeting Archbishop Bohan on several occasions and he was a witty, kind, personable individual who enjoyed conversing on a variety of topics.  I also had the honor of having him confirm my daughter Cassandra. Our prayers go out to his family and closest friends as he will be deeply missed.

LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR MIND,

WITH ALL YOUR MIND, LOVE THE LORD!

 

 

Biography change of schedule...Flexibility Rocks!

Reading & Writing
Today we continued to work on the Hershey story activity as well as our Biography  sentence writing from jot notes.  Due to the cancelation of Band, the students received an additional hour of tech time to work on writing sentences from their jot notes.

Each student had another conference with Mrs. B. to discuss what work needed to be completed within their biography as well as to check if the setup changes from Monday were completed.  Some students still need to make these setup changes as well as complete the required research on the required 8 subheadings.  Please refer to your assignment sheet and planning organizer if you cannot recall what topics you are missing in your research. As discussed in class, after 10.5 hours and a setup visual on the screen daily, there should not be any setup errors still present in your document. 


SCHEDULE CHANGE TO LEARN NEW COMPUTER PROGRAM:  Mrs. Stewart-Mitchell cannot come on Monday, Jan. 18 to demonstrate the program.  She will be coming on Thursday, Jan. 14 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm.  This should not pose a problem to anyone  because with tomorrow's hours, you will of had 11.5 hours to have your organizer completed in OneDrive following the proper setup with all sentences for the 8 subheadings.  In all reality you should be able to find a few pictures and a video or 2 tomorrow to use in learning the program. 

I will then evaluate the Writing Process tomorrow for those finished early and complete these evaluations in class on  Friday. 


Math
Guided Math stations are working well especially the game/activity station.

Students have been assigned an online Mathletics quiz that can be done between Jan. 14 10:00 am - Sat. Jan. 16 6 pm for marks.  The test closes at 6 pm for evaluation.

Social
Jan. 15 - Parent Interview and Country Project due.  Mr. Brodner was very disappointed with the number of late assignments on the parent interview.

A huge shout out to Ken, Pearayne, Richmon, Arvie, and Trenese for volunteering to draw and color our class' 2 Stations of the Cross canvas boards for the church!  I am very proud of your planning skills and problem-solving abilities to complete this project in 14 days! 

Working Stamina full steam ahead!

Biography Project
Last week the students had 7.5 hours of class tech time to research and complete the planning organizer provided as per classroom instructions. 

Mon/Tues/Wed  tech time this week (3 hours) will be dedicated to making sentences out of the researched jot notes.  Students are to put information into their own words so they are not plagiarizing.   Some students still need to complete their organizer online in OneDrive  (paper copy was used as a backup)

Thurs/Fri tech time (2 hours) will be dedicated to locating appropriate images & videos for the presentation. 

I will be evaluating this "Writing Process" component of the project on Thurs. & Fri. of this week. 

Students are aware that with an incomplete "Writing Process" component will be required to do a paper biography report.

Reading

Hershey story assignment is due on Friday, Jan. 15. 

Math

Outstanding results on today's geometry quiz.

FYI

Jan. 13 - Religion Make a Difference Assignment
Jan. 14 - Health Standards (Huge assignment crossing several subjects for assessment)
Jan. 14 &15 - Biography Writing Process component completed
Jan. 14 - Science Communicate page 170 assignment
Feb. 2 - Geometry Test

Awesome day!

Lots was accomplished today.

 We:

-practiced again how to make one's own notes in Science

- did another 1.5 hours of biography research = 6 hours so far this week (everyone should be done 8 boxes on their organizer or in OneDrive with proper sources listed, students are to do any needed catchup work at home) 

- talked about standards & how they impact our reputation/identity

-practiced naming angles and accurately measuring them (practice these skills at home for your quiz on Monday)

-worked on a Making a Difference Religion assignment with 2 more work periods next week to complete it

We ended the day storytelling including the silly things done by Mrs. Brassard. Many laughs had by all!

FYI for Monday:

1)Finish all organizer research sections for your biography, start looking for pictures and videos to utilize in your project & store them in your OneDrive folder in the assigned location

2) Prepare for Math quiz

3) Read for 20-30 min every night for class AR points using RAD reading strategies

4) RAD test coming soon

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas everybody as this is our current Catholic season!

Math
Today I taught the students how to go about making their own notes.  When a student makes their own notes they have a stronger memory of them. 

I guided the students through this process on the topic of Types of Angles.  All students wrote down the name of the angle, definition with my labelled diagram.  We also reviewed from grade 5 the symbol for angle and the 2 ways to name an angle which we also placed in the notes.  (Note:  students were instructed to draw angles using rays not segments like in the text so if need to complete your notes, draw arrows onto the ends of the 2 segments as done in class)

Most students completed the 5 types of angles.  (See page 127 if need to complete notes) 

We will be doing Guided Math for the 1st time starting tomorrow.  It is math stations to practice skills independently and 1 re-enforcement station with the teacher to develop thinking skills.  On Friday the class and I will self-reflect together on ways to improve this new way of doing Math.  It is a work in progress that the class and I are working through together.

Health

Jan. 14 - Standards #1-6 (no lates accepted) Do to the variety of interpretation, do not do this at home as Mrs. B is explaining how to answer the questions as we go along.

FYI
Geometry protractor needed daily for Math
Jan. 7 Win, Lose, or Draw noon hour tournament starts in Mrs. B's
           room if on a team

Jan. 8 - PJ day
Jan. 11 - DQ order due
Jan. 15 - DQ lunch

Our class New Year's Resolution:  BE BETTER!